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Show I lUar in the tribune Office i There is war in the Tribune office; merry, unrelenting, flerco and bitter war, if you know what that Is. "That el (1 Mormon," as Joo calls Cannon, seems to havo a bit the best of "that (1 (1 Jew," as Cannon calls Lippman. The pair aro at dagger's point's and good, kind, fatherly old Colonel Nelson Nel-son Is laying awake nights wondering which will win out so ho can flop to the right side when the time for flopping flop-ping arrives. For his benefit it may bo stated that just now Cannon has the inside track, becauso tho former senator seems to havo arrived at' tho I conclusion that Lippman has been "stringing" him for a long time; seems to havo determined that Joo lias boon with him for tho solo purpose pur-pose of pulling his leg. At least so a very closo friend of tho senator states. This friend, by tho way, Is tho closest friend tho senator has, so get on your thinking caps and work tho matter out. Thero used to bo a sort of grudgo between Joo and Kearns about somo money matters. It has broken out again. It will bo recalled that when Kearns ran for senator tho first time .Too butted into tho campaign. Ho ' was hungering and thirsting for distinction dis-tinction as a manager of a senatorial campaign, was Joe. Well, ho got It, but not without tho usual trials and tribulations. Of course Joo know that money would bo required, so ho Informed In-formed Tom that ho, Joe, had somo $13,000 laying around loose in one of tho banks and it would bo better for him to spend that than havo tho senator sen-ator Involved by spending his own. After tho campaign why Tom could pay It back. Now never mind whore Joo got that money; ho had it and let that bo sufficient. No, we didn't say anything about how ho got' It, either. Ho has it and let that suffice; how and whoro has nothing to do with this story. Joo blow In this money in Tom's Interest; In-terest; blow it like a major, or two I majors, according to his story, and right after tho blowing tho senator took a trip to Europe and left Joo : with no bank account worth mention ing. Joo got anxious and cabled Tom. Now It costs money to cable, but Joo cabled. He cabled extensively, too. Kearns read tho cablo and said something about Joo being an overrated over-rated mug; that ho wasn't tho only manager on tho beach; that ho took too much credit to himself; that all he had amounted to in tho campaign was to run errands, snoop around and find out what was going on In tho other fellow's headquarters and then como over and toll what was doing; in other words that ho mado a good mouse and that was about all. But of course ho had to answer tho cablo olso Joo would havo kept on and ho might havo got to sending tho messages mes-sages "collect" and that would havo been expensive. Ho told Joo to go to California and rest up; that ho would fix matters when ho camo back. Joo bought two suits of clothes and had samo charged to Kearns as part of tho campaign expenses. "When tho latter camo homo and a settlement was attempted tho latter kicked on thoso two suits. Ho couldn't understand under-stand why any man should need two suits and directed attention to tho fact that for years and years boforo ho became senator ho had only one suit and It wasn't such a hell of a suit at that. A man couldn't wear two suits at onco unless one was bigger than tho other and two suits was ono suit too many. But Joo convinced him that ho had to buy tho extra suit in order to make tho account balanco, so Tom reluctantly settled up. All this required several months' tlmo and Joo got angry. Ho declared ho was entitled to somo compensation for his services in addition to this monoy back, but Tom could not seo whoro a messenger boy was entitled to much moro than two suits of clothes at ?76 per suit for two months' work. Joo was soro; ho was very sore and said ho would get oven with tho son of a gun if it took five hundred years. Tom noticed Joe's soreness and landed him the district attorneyship, giving Charlio Whittomoro tho double cross to a faro you well. But this didn't satisfy Joe, becauso ho said that If Tom thought getting him a job whoro ho might havo to do some work for his money was any recompense for making a man a senator they had to show him. Then Joo butted in as manager of the Tribune and then Tom hired Can non as editor and gavo him full swing. This didn't suit Joo at all, becauso be-causo ho wanted to suggest a policy. Cannon, however, doesn't want nny strings on him and then camo tho fight. Kearns, having ascertained that Joo isn't such a whoop la of a follow after all; that thero aro four hundred and forty men in Utah who can mnnngo senatorial campaigns as well as ho can and that pcoplo who can run newspapers aro thlckcr'n flics, has determined to shunt lilm over tho bnttlomcnts into tho moat bo-low. bo-low. Benevolent old man Nelson will find himself perfectly safe in allying himself with Cannon; his job will last longer than If ho sides in with Joo. |